Recourse

From Old French recours < Latin recursus, past participle of recurrÅ.

Full definition of recourse

(countable and uncountable; plural recourses)

Sir H. WottonThus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
DrydenOur last recourse is therefore to our art.
1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 12Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, , chapter VIII, section ii:Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.

(obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.

Spenserswift recourse of flushing blood
Sir Thomas BrownePreventive physic ... preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.